Valentine sperle



(Model.)

V. vSPERLE. GOMPOSING STICK.

No. 409,518, Patented Aug. 20, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VALENTINE SPERLE, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES B.PEARSON AND FRED E. YOUNGS, OF SAME PLACE.

COMPOSINGf-STICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,518, dated August20, 1889.

Application Jtiled July 1,1885. Serial No. 170,396. (Model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.:

Be it known that I, VALENTINE SPERLE, of Pittsburg, in the county ofAllegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Oomposing- Sticks; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use it, reference being had to the acco1npanying drawings,which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improved composing-stick for printers use. Inthe old form of stick the face of the adjustable knee is used to gagethe length of the lines of type, and should be always parallel to theinner face of the end piece of the stick-frame. It is -found in practicethat after a stick has been used for some time the knee becomespermanently bent out of truth, and the lines of type will not be of thesame length, or, in other words, the faces of the knee and end piece arenot exactly parallel. By my improvement I do not prevent the knee frombecoming bent, as that would require too great a weight of metal, butprovide it with an adjustable face, which can be set to compensate forany deflection of the knee.

In the annexed drawings, Figurel is aplan of my improved composingstick, and Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

A designates the main frame of the stick, having adj ustably secured toit by a bolt?) an angular piece or knee c, having a longitudinal slot d,which allows it to be adjusted end wise; or, instead of the slot in theknee-piece, it may simply have one or more holes, and a slot may be cutin the back of the main frame A, which will permit of the sameadjustment. The head f of this angular piece or gage c is provided witha segmental recess g, in which a corresponding segmental proj ection hon an adjustable piece t' is placed, said projection beinglarger thanthe recess g, I5 and secured fast to the head f by any suitable means. Ishow as one way the bolt j, which is passed through a Haring slot 7c inthe curved portion of the knee c and threaded into the projection h ofpiece 'L'. The adjustable piece 5o t' may now be set perfectly parallelwith the end face of the main frame Aby simply loosening the bolts andsliding the knee or gage up to the end face of the main frame A andfastening the bolt b, when the gage may now be set to any desired widthor size, and the stick will be ready for the reception of the type. Thisadjustment lnay'be made at any time when the knee becomes bent, orwhenever desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to securebyLetters Patent, Is-

l. In a composing-stick, an adj ustable knee provided with a curvedrecess in its head and 6 5 a flaring slot through it, in combinationwith the adjustable piece provided with a rounding projection on itsinner side and a clamping-bolt, which passes through the flaring slotand locks the adjustable piece in position, 7c substantially as shown.

2. In a composingstick, the combination of a slotted and recessed kneewith the adjustable piece, which is fastened to the knee at its centeronly, whereby the two ends of the adjustable piece can be moved alike,substantially as described.

VALENTINE SPERLE.

Witnesses:

W. C. BARR, JosIAH NV. ELLs.

